My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Keep yourself as busy as you can. Try and forget. But even with 7 billion other distractions... you don't forget me.

You have to be competitive to be relevant

And to the little Squirrel who lived in the fir-tree, and was lonely, he said, 'Where is my mother?' And the Squirrel answered, 'Thou hast slain mine. Dost thou seek to slay thine also?

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

True change takes place in the imagination.

I've been given the opportunity to be alive in this day and age, and it's rare.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

I have a need to do something and know I can be successful.